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A rapid reference to those men and women who have, over the last two millennia contributed to the life, history and study of Christianity in all its facets, regardless of denomination. Entries are concise and accessible but for key influential figures longer essays have been written.
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Michael Walsh has written or edited over a dozen works on the history of the Church, both ancient and contemporary. He was until recently, Librarian at Heythrop College, University of London, UK.
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Aaron, Pietro (Aron) Monk, music theorist, born Florence, Italy, c.1489, died after 1545. His career in music began by founding a choir school for Pope Leo X in 1516. He moved to Imola (1521), Rimini (1523), Venice to work for the Knights of Malta, (1525). He himself entered the Knights in 1529 and then joined the Cross-bearers in Bergamo. His best work is Toscanello in Musica (first 1523, last 1539). His solution to the problem of temper, to flatten the fifth, anticipated the well-tempered tuning of the eighteenth century. He is also known for asking composers to write the different parts together ('vertically') and to specify all accidentals.
Abad y Sanchez, Diego José Jesuit scholar, born La Lagunita, Mexico, 1 June 1727, died Bologna 30 September 1779. He entered religious life in 1727, and after a successful career as educator in rhetoric, philosophy, theology and law (canon and civil), as a Jesuit he was expelled from the Spanish Empire in 1767 and took to writing in Ferrara, Italy. His noted work De deo deoque homine heroica (1773) is a verse treatise on God intended for young Mexicans. His scholarly dedication extended to studying medicine and thereby prolonging his life when the doctors were powerless.
Abbatini, Antonio Maria Music theorist, composer, born c.1597 Tiferno, Italy, died there, c.1679-80. He studied with the brothers Nanino and extended their style in much music. He married Dorotea Giustini in 1631. His career started as chapel master of St. John Lateran (1622-28) and he spent much time at St. Mary Major. He composed on an opera libretto by the future Pope Urban VIII and worked with Athanasius Kircher on Musurgia Universalis (1650). His major theoretical work Discorsi e lezioni accademiche is kept in the Bologna Conservatory.
Abbelen, Peter Priest and spiritual director, born Germany, 8 August 1843, died Milwaukee, USA, 24 August 1917. He was ordained in Milwaukee in 1868 but joined the La Crosse Diocese. After eight years of pastorate he became spiritual director to the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Milwaukee where they had been established since 1850. This congregation had come to USA from Germany in 1847 to minister to German-speaking immigrants. Abbelen became embroiled in a dispute over jurisdiction in nationalistic parishes and the use of English in schools. The subsequent decision of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith is considered unfavourable to him. He was made a domestic prelate in 1907.
Abbeville, Claude d' French Capuchin missionary and historian, born c.1575, died 1616. Having entered the order in 1593, he joined the French expedition to Brazil in 1611 as a missionary, and become the first to write about the Brazilian lands conquered by the French. He is best know for Histoire de la mission des Pere??s Capuchins en l'isle de Maragnan et terres circoncoisines (Paris, 1614); he was involved in this mission (Maranhao).
Abbo of Fleury Benedictine abbot, saint, born c.945 near Orléans, France, died at Fleury-sur-Loire, France, 13 November 1004, from a wound received while trying to resolve a monastic dispute in Gascony. This monk was known for learning and sanctity, having studied philosophy, mathematics and astronomy. He calmed those who foresaw the end of the world in the millennium year 1000. He served for two years in England from 965 as director of the newly founded Ramsey monastery school in Huntington. Gerbert (later Pope Sylvester II) intervened when his election as abbot of Fleury was contested. His disciple Aimoin, in whose arms he died, recorded his labours and virtues.
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